Panorama Corporate Center in Arapahoe County is home to United Launch Alliance and Comcast. (Image provided by HFF)

Panorama Corporate Center, the 780,649-square-foot, six-building office park in Arapahoe County that’s home to United Launch Alliance and Comcast, has been sold.

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler announced the transaction Tuesday. The buyer was Denver-based EverWest Real Estate Partners and Independencia Asset Management, a Chilean firm with offices in Miami. The seller was Miller Global Properties, which has owned the 42-acre campus since 2013.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the sale marks the latest in a string of big-dollar acquisitions in Denver’s office market. Just last week, a South Korean firm announced it had purchased CoBank Center, the 11-story Greenwood Village office tower that houses the agricultural cooperative bank’s headquarters.

Four of the six buildings at Panorama, which was developed between 1996 and 2008, are 100 percent leased to Comcast and ULA. Overall, occupancy at the park is 93.8 percent, according to HFF.

Certified SoulCycle instructors will teach six free classes a day during the three-day pop-up experience. SoulCycle’s signature 45-minute spin classes — set to candlelight and loud music — typically cost $30-34.

A Korean institutional investor paid $113.46 million for the CoBank Center in Greenwood Village in December. (Image courtesy of CBRE)

CoBank Center, the 11-story Greenwood Village office tower that houses the agricultural cooperative bank’s headquarters, has been sold for $113.46 million to a South Korean institutional investor.

The name of the investor was not disclosed, but the transaction, completed in December, marked the single largest office building sale in suburban Denver in 2015, as well as the first Asian-based capital commercial investment into Colorado’s office market, according to CBRE, which represented the seller, Shea Properties, in the deal.

The 274,287-square-foot tower at 6340 S. Fiddlers Green Circle has been home to CoBank since it was completed in fall 2015.

“CoBank Center stands out as one of the premier Class A headquarters development projects in the nation,” said Jeff Shell, executive vice president with CBRE’s Corporate Capital Markets in Grosse Pointe, Mich., in a statement. “The state-of-the-art building combines sustainable design with the latest technologies while enjoying panoramic mountain views in a location with walkable access to dining, entertainment and light-rail transit.

“The core attributes of the building combined with CoBank’s tenancy and the area’s strong fundamentals helped to capture the interest of the Korean investor.”

Colorado’s Minority Business Office is offering $10,000 grants to women and minority-owned businesses in the export industries.

The Colorado Minority Business Office is offering grants of up to $10,000 to women and minority-owned companies in the international export business.

The grants are available to businesses that are new to exporting or are expanding into new markets. Eligible companies must have headquarters in Colorado, employ fewer than 100 workers and have 50 percent of its workforce based in the state. They also must in good standing with the state’s Secretary of State’s office and have a 51 percent ownership by a woman or minority.

Recipients can use the money for business development, marketing (international trade shows) and other aspects of promoting and conducting an international export business.

Applicants must attend a 10-session course focused on international opportunities. The course will be covered by the Colorado Small Business Development Center.

Aaron Brill directs a helicopter re-supply of log anchors before a descent of Velocity Peak at his Silverton Mountain ski area. Photo by Jason Blevins

Tim Petrick, a ski industry veteran who has worked as a top executive for Rossignol and Booth Creek Resorts and most recently as president of K2 Sports, is joining Silverton Mountain ski area as chief operating officer.

“I am thrilled to be able to bring someone of Tim’s caliber to join us in building our business,” said Aaron Brill, who co-founded the single-chair Silverton Mountain ski area in 2000 with his wife Jenny, in a statement released Wednesday. “We are ready to add executive talent and take Silverton Mountain to the next level. We think Petrick is uniquely qualified as our COO because he not only knows the business side, he has been an active leader in adventure skiing and the backcountry as a participant and product developer. We couldn’t think of a more perfect fit. As we approach, the 15 year anniversary of Silverton Mountain, the business has grown to a level where the timing was appropriate to add someone like Tim.”

Petrick is a pillar of the skiing industry. After stepping down as president of K2 Sports, he served as an ambassador for K2. His move to Silverton Mountain puts him back on snow.
“The opportunity to join Aaron, Jen, the talented guides, ski patrol and team at Silverton Mountain is a dream come true,” said Petrick, in a statement. “I started my career on the snow and it is great to be heading back to the mountains to help grow Silverton Mountain to its full potential.”

Silverton Mountain this month opened its third Alaskan helicopter skiing base in Seward, where Silverton Mountain guides just wrapped their first-week of helicopter skiing, delivering the only heliskiing in December in Alaska. Silverton Mountain’s helicopter operations cover more than 10 million acres of terrain in Alaska and southwestern Colorado.
Silverton Mountain opens Dec. 19.

Hedge-fund manager and renowned conservationist Louis Bacon plans to build a large sawmill in the San Luis Valley to help process timber harvested from his Trinchera Blanca Ranch, the largest contiguous ranch in Colorado.

“Large portions of Colorado’s forests are hurting due to prolonged drought, bug infestations and poor historic forest management practices – the same issues we are facing on the ranch,” said Ty Ryland, the manager of the Trinchera Blanca Ranch, in a statement. “The forest-health issues on the Ranch, along with those of the region, are pushing us to act and the best solution is to sustainably manage our forests and build this sawmill to handle the volume.”

The proposed sawmill would be set up near the town of Blanca in Costilla County and could employ 40 to 70 workers. It could process 20 million board-feet of timber a year, about half of that coming from the ranch. The timber and processed construction-ready lumber would meet the requirements of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

The proposed would sawmill help Bacon’s team elevate its active forestry management practices, which reduces the threat of catastrophic wildfire by thinning canopies that have grown dense under years of fire-suppression efforts.

Ranch managers said Costilla County has granted permits for the sawmill location and timber removal. Pending final approvals, the sawmill could open in late 2016 with plans for full operation by early 2017.

“We are hopeful it can get done as it would help us save our forest and bring the added benefit of positive economic benefits and jobs to the valley,” Ryland said.

Black Friday shopping in 2014 started on Thursday at many stores, including the Best Buy in Longmont, which opened its doors at 5 p.m. (Daily Camera file photo)

Thanksgiving is almost here, and for many of us, that means it’s time to get our shopping game-plan on.

Are you skipping Thanksgiving dinner for a chance at that flat-screen television? What’s on your can’t-miss list for Black Friday? Which of your favorite shops are offering special deals on Small Business Saturday?

We’ll update this list as we get more information from retailers. This year, Thanksgiving is Nov. 26, Black Friday Nov. 27 and Small Business Saturday Nov. 28.

Robert Patrick prices skis for the 2013 Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver last November. The expo runs through Sunday at the Colorado Convention Center. (Photo by Erin Hull, The Denver Post)

I hear this phrase often: “Skiing is too expensive.”

If you walk up to a lift ticket window in January, skiing is indeed a pricey pursuit.
But if you make a plan to ski, riding a resort can be no more expensive than a night at the movies.
So really, skiing is pricey only for poor planners. With a season pass and a pinch of commitment, turns are available at prices from the 1970s.

The 24th annual Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo takes over the Colorado Convention Center this weekend, with a bunch of last year’s gear for cheap and, most importantly, a final opportunity to pick up affordable lift ticket packages, vacation deals and multi-mountain ski passes.

Remnants of the annual Ski Rex Labor Day sale are tagged at deep discounts. Season-long ski rental deals for kids have buried the days of buying new ski gear in February for expanding and improving children. More than 30 resorts, hotels and travel companies will be offering last-chance purchases of all kinds of ski country passes and packages.

Of course, the 24th annual Expo amps the show with its festival attractions, from interactive draws like a ropes course, climbing wall and a Nordic biathlon simulator – guns and skis! – to Olympians, champion slackliners and beer.
The Expo is open noon to 10 pm Friday, Nov. 6, 10 am to 8 pm Saturday and 10 am to 6 pm Sunday. Admission is free for kids 12 and under and $15 for adults, but a coupon available in The Denver Post, or at any Colorado Ski & Golf or at Admission is $15 for adults. Get a $3 coupon in The Denver Post or at any Colorado Ski & Golf location or at bewisports.com/expos/Denver.

Jesse Ventura is adorned with his signature feather boa and glitter sunglasses by professional wrestler Chyna, in this 1999 file photo during a World Wrestling Federation press conference. (AP Photo, Dawn Villella)

UPDATE: We’ve been contacted by Jesse Ventura’s publicist and apparently the letter isn’t from the former governor and pro wrestler. Ventura was the host of the TV show “Conspiracy Theory” for a number of years. Looks like this time the conspiracy found him. Who sent this letter? It’s a mystery. We may never know.

Jesse Ventura — yes THAT Jesse Ventura — or someone claiming to be him, is maybe convinced there is something being covered up at Denver International Airport.

“We explored the Denver International Airport and saw mysterious artwork displayed throughout seems to depict a road map of plans for the Apocalypse.”

In a letter to DIA CEO Kim Day, cc’d to The Denver Post, someone purporting to be the former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler explains he’s learned of buried buildings at the airport.

And he plans to start digging.

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura outside the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Minnesota.

The letter informs Day that he will be at DIA soon with an excavation crew to unearth one of the buildings.

DIA posted the letter to its Facebook page in the hopes of verifying the letter and reaching Ventura to “ensure the proper permitting.”

Here’s a round-up for Denver International Airport, where Volaris, Frontier, Southwest and United currently fly to Mexico. Other airlines at DIA service Mexico, however the seasonal service typically starts in November for peak holiday travel. Each airline’s policy is different.

Emilie Rusch covers retail and commercial real estate for The Post. A Wisconsin native and Mizzou graduate, she moved to Colorado in 2012. Before that, she worked at a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. It's the one with Mount Rushmore.